"I did."
"Was there nothin' for me?"
"There was."
"A letter!"
"Ay."
Peggy Lacey trembled. Confronting, thus intimately, the enormity she proposed, she was shocked. She concealed her agitation, however, and laid strong hands upon her wicked resolution to restrain its flight.
"Nothin' else?" said she.
"Ay; there was more."
"Not a small packet!"
"Ay; there was a small packet. I 'low you been expectin' some such gift as that, isn't you?"